Or was last night all about consoling Manchin after seeing his beloved pepperoni rolls bounced from the Taste of America brackets? Senate sources remained tight-lipped about the agenda. Ditto on the menu selections.

Leaving us to wonder whether solons elected to dine on Chilean sea bass accompanied by Japanese eggplant, a roasted Amish chicken dish or Southern-style swine (pork chops escorted by sweet-and-sour mustard greens); one can only hope the group heeded Washington Post dining critic Tom Sietsema’s warning and stuck with something fried.